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• Interbank Hryvnia Rate Keeps At 4.60 UAH/USD, NBU Buys Euros At 7.3195 UAH/EUR

  Dealers from commercial banks said at the start of the trading day quotations fluctuated within 4.59-4.61 UAH/USD; their range subsequently narrowed to 4.59-4.60 UAH/USD and by the end of the day they rose to 4.60-4.62 UAH/USD.

  

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• Yuschenko: Internal Economic Policy Leads To Inflation In Ukraine

  He said this addressing a press-conference.

  

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• Cabinet Directs Emergency And Energy Ministries To Take Measures To Alleviate Aftermath Of Bad Weather In Six Regions

  The Cabinet of Ministers secretariat's department of media relations announced this in a statement.

  

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• MP Zhvania (OU-PSD) Asks European Human Rights Court To Declare Attempts To Cancel His Citizenship Illegal

  The press service of the People's Self-Defense public movement announced this to Ukrainian News.

  

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• Ukrainian Orthodox Church Of Moscow Patriarchy Urges Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I To Coordinate All His Initiatives On Treatment For Church Split In Ukraine

  Ukrainian News learned this from an appeal of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I.

  

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• Yuschenko Believes MP Zhvania Was Involved In His Poisoning In 2004

  Yuschenko told this at a press conference.

  

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• Yuschenko Says Revival Of Church Is Priority Of His Activities

  Yuschenko told this at a conference entitled "Regional Dialogue" [the regional dialogue between the Orthodox churches and the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats in the European Parliament].

  

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• Defense Ministry To Advertise Contractual Service In Army Through Internet

  Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the press service of the Defense Ministry.

  

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• Temperature Of +28...+30 C, Intermittent Rains At Night In Places In Kyiv On Friday

  Ukrainian News learned this from the weather center.

  

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• Ukraine, Greece Advocating Visa-Free Regime For Owners Of Business Passports

  Foreign Affairs Ministry press service said.

  

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• Party Of Regions Says It Might Recruit 226 Votes To Sack Lutsenko

  MP Nestor Shufrych of the faction declared this at a press conference.

  

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• Kharkiv Mayor Dobkyn: No Grounds For Forceful Detention Of Kharkiv City Council Secretary Kernes

  He told this to the press.

  

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• Baloha: Tymoshenko, Yanukovych Preparing For Presidential Elections

  Presidential press service stated.

  

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• General Prosecutor's Office: Zhvania Attempts To Hamper Investigation By Refusing To Give Testimony About Yuschenko's Poisoning

  Ukrainian News learned this from the press-release circulated by the General Prosecutor's Office.

  

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• CEC Approves Work Plan Until 2009

  The plan was agreed at the meeting of the Central Election Commission on Wednesday.

  

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• Labor Ministry and Pension Fund Opens Hot Lines For Getting Additional Payments To Pensions For July

  This reads the statement of the Labor Ministry, text of which Ukrainian News has obtained.

  

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• Police To Question Kernes On Four Cases

  In particular, they are going to question Kernes on the criminal case of theft offense and bodily injuries brought in June 2006 by the investigation department of the Chervonozavodskyi district division of the Kharkiv city internal affairs department.

  

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• OU-PSD MP Zhvania: Case Involving Poisoning Of Yuschenko Has No Prospects

  Zhvania was speaking to journalists near the investigation department of the Prosecutor-General's Office.

  

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• UPECO Not Ruling Out Stabilization Of Petroleum Products Prices In Late July-Early August

  UPECO's Executive Director Serhii Kuiun announced this at a press conference at the press center of the Ukrainian News information agency.

  

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• Kernes Fails To Give Testimony About Deliberate Murder At Internal Affairs Ministry

  Ukrainian News learned this from the press-service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

  

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• Tymoshenko: Ukraine, Russia Agree To Exclude Mediators In Gas Supplies

  The prime minister said opening Wednesday meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.

  

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• Interbank Hryvnia Rate Remains At 4.60 UAH/USD

  According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 4.58-4.61 UAH/USD, then narrowed to 4.59-4.60 UAH/USD and by the end of the trades rose to 4.60-4.61 UAH/USD.

  

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• Kharkiv City Council Secretary Kernes Assesses His Arrest As Lutsenko's Desire To Settle Accounts

  Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the press service of the Party of Regions.

  

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• Party Of Regions Urges Tymoshenko To Sack Lutsenko

  Ukrainian News learned this from the press service of the Party of Regions.

  

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• Prosecutors See No Reason To File Criminal Case Against Military Personnel Involved In Incident At Hrafska Quay

  Valerii Saratov, the head of the Sevastopol municipal council, announced this at an extraordinary session of the municipal council that was convened on July 22 in connection with the incident.

  

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• Russia To Start Raise Of Volgoneft-139 Vessel In Kerch Strait July 25

  Chairman of the Crimean republic environmental committee Yevhen Bubnov told the press.

  

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• Ohryzko: Bill On Withdrawal Of Russian Black Sea Fleet From Crimea After 2017 Completed

  The minister told the press.

  

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• Temperature Of +30...+32 C, No Precipitations In Kyiv On Thursday

  Ukrainian News learned this from the weather center.

  

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• MP Zhvania Comes To Prosecutor General's Office For Interview On Yuschenko's Poisoning Case

  The interrogation was to start at 10:00.

  

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• Cabinet To Approve On Wednesday Construction Project For Terminal D At Boryspil Airport

  The Cabinet will also consider changes to the loan agreement on the project of Boryspil airport development between the government of Japan and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).

  

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